Year: 1904
Type: article
Abstract: This very quaint style of decorative painting, so prevalent throughout Scotland from the beginning to the middle of the seventeenth century, seems to have been the outcome of a " craze," among the greater number of those members of the nobility and gentry who were in possession of baronial residences, to decorate the roofs of their principal apartments.Most of these tempera-painted roofs are to be found in castles, palaces, mansion-houses and towers, or small churches, as may be instanced in the Montgomerie Aisle, Largs Church, Ayrshire, and St Mary's of Grandtully, Perthshire, which after disuse for worship were renovated with a view to utilise them-as they did-by converting them into mausoleums for those gentlemen and their spouses who were responsible for the interior decorations under their direct personal supervision, and during their own lifetime.All these painted chambers bear some evidence, either by dates, armorial bearings, badges, or ciphers, of having been executed after the Union of the Crowns in 1603.Although much of its execution is scarcely equal to its inspiration,
Author: Andrew W Lyons
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4312413276